Irish Fairy Tales, Chapter III, sentence 8
“I am called Delvcaem (Fair Shape) and I am the daughter of Morgan,” she replied.
Who acts: name · What happens: call, be, reply · To what, where: name, daughter · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Chapter III. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (name), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 called | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | Delvcaem | Delvcaem | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 called | xcomp |
| 6 | ( | ( | PUNCT | _ | 8 Shape | punct |
| 7 | Fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Shape | amod |
| 8 | Shape | Shape | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Delvcaem | appos |
| 9 | ) | ) | PUNCT | _ | 8 Shape | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 daughter | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 daughter | nsubj |
| 12 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 daughter | cop |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 daughter | det |
| 14 | daughter | daughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 called | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Morgan | case |
| 16 | Morgan | Morgan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 daughter | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 replied | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 replied | punct |
| 19 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 replied | nsubj |
| 20 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | advcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call in a quote | present · passive | name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | name | the daughter | of Morgan | tree rules | |||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | name | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Irish Fairy Tales» by James Stephens, Project Gutenberg book 2892 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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